About Seven Storied Houses

Each story has found its way into this book at different times in my life. One story came to me while driving on the back roads near my house. I glanced in a yard and saw a double-wide mobile home with a ramp obviously for someone who used a wheelchair. The story something just tells itself and I take a few notes to remind me where I want to go with it. Other stories in this collection were based on observations I’ve made either of the elderly living on their own after a spouse has passed, or someone I knew many years ago who comforted herself with alcohol. I understood when I met her mother who struck me as a cold woman with no love to give her daughter. Other stories tell how life changes even when you have perfect plans. And other stories came about when I thought about someone accepting the life they chose years before but still have a lot of life to live so give up comfort for adventure. I even have a section of flash fiction based on the people who live “Alone Together” in an apartment building, coming and going but never meeting.

My favorite compliment for this book was a woman who was standing in line at a local store with this book in hand and when my husband asked if she would like the author to sign it for her, came over to me and told me that a friend had bought my book and love it so much she had to get her own copy. Those kinds of compliments, unsolicited, are the best.